Inaugural season for the renovated Strand and Capawock theatres in Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven is off to a solid start.

Students of Rosie’s Theater Kids, which connects youths from New York city with performing arts, have spent a week at Vineyard Arts Project.

Island culinary stars were aligned around a table at Forever Wild last week to celebrate the Moroccan cuisine of private chef Gia Winsryg-Ulmer.

Monday night’s rehearsal for the Island Theatre Workshop’s summer production of The King and I began with Lee Fierro and director Kevin Ryan gathering the cast to give them feedback. Amidst the technical discussions typical of this sort of assembly were kind words from both. At one point Ms. Fierro even became teary as she complimented nine-year-old Zachary Mathias on his performance in the first scene the night before.

Paul Robeson is coming to the Vineyard. Well, not the actual Mr. Robeson. The famous football player, singer, actor and activist died in 1976.

At the Old Whaling Church — arguably the Vineyard’s finest sonic space — the chamber society on Monday presented an evening of music featuring the unsinkable Delores Stevens, pianist and artistic director of the society, and three talented friends.